How did you get into dubstep?

rectaldubz · Post by **rectaldubz** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:21 pm

my mate picked up digital mystiks- haunted on vinyl from my local record store, drop records to be precise and we rinsed it daily, good times!

hes now more of a drum and base mixer whereas im the dub addicted fiend!

chubzilla · Post by **chubzilla** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:42 pm

Last summer my mate played me Midnight Request Line, and for some reason the music just clicked with me. I could see myself moving to it. Anyways, i decided to delve a bit deeper into 'Dubstep'. So I bought the double cd 'I Love Dubstep'. I started hearing different sides of Dubstep but the bass just hit me. This is the type of music i had been looking for.

Tracks like Archangel and 26 basslines had me gobsmacked.

Been listening ever since.

killer b · Post by **killer b** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:54 pm

Its all STRUGGLES fault. !!!!!!!! and That Guy MKS!!!!!!

THE ENTIRE CITY of SEATTLE has been saturated by solid bass blasting. I am talking serious Bass Blasting.

That caused the building of 3 very successful dubstep or dubstepish labels
insectmind shift records and dubsteprecords

One huge dubstep all dubstep all the time radio station dubstep fm and another royality paying station that airs dubstep globally globalvortexradio.com

NOT TO MENTION dubstep is now being played 5 night a week in various clubs underground and above ground locations in seattle.......

also not to mention seattle or if it has to become christmas island legally
{ trust me I have been researching! but thats another story}

Is the Leading City in the Dubstep to Fine Arts Movement....

Being the first city to foster the art of the dubstep to ballet action. The idea of electronic composer MKS to Ballet Movement with dancers from one of the worlds most esteemed ballet companies. Pacific Northwest Ballet.

This Movement Went over well World Wide receiving an award from Dance Magazine.

And just wait for the next project with Meredith Webster Princess Grace Award Winning Beautiful Ballerina dancing to dubstep action I will be working on in S.F. while I am out perfoming with my button pushing thingy.

ANYWAY this is alll................................

Because a few years 6ish or more years back some dudes( MKS aka tonescientist and Rama) were making dubstep in a garage....

and then some other dudes did the first all dubstep night in seattle....
in april 07 The Milkman and Struggle. I had my dancing shoes on. for that show. I love the poster for that show!
THE DUBSTEP INVASION!

and then some other dudes Dirty Steve and Lukki did an all dubstep night.

and so on a so forth.....

and then they brought out N type first and then Benga and Hatcha! I remember dancing on stage that night!

few years ago. hee hee.

AND THEN FINLAND WAS IN THE HOUSE.... my love to Sound Safari!

BUT THE DUBVIRUS FOR me I have to say
ITS ALL MKS and STRUGGLES Fault. They are so fired!

DUBSTEP CHANGED MY LIFE and For That I am Thankful!

BASS BLAST THE WORLD woo hoo! So

ya sorry bout my long story here.... okay not really I am not SORRY. But somebody needed to tell it!

SEATTLE IS ROCKING DUBSTEP!!!!!!!!and HAS BEEN FOR YEARS!

IF ONLY YOU KNEW HOW MANY SPEAKERS OUT HERE BLAST THE BASS!

Did I mention I am in LOVE with BASS!!!!!!!! and tempos 138ish to 142ish
BPM

Sending Love !!!!!!Ms.Killer Bee

j_j_c · Post by **j_j_c** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:35 pm

You know I can't actually remember.

I want to say midnight request line but I can't remember if there were another few tunes i had heard before or what.

i know for sure it came from my love of dub/reggae

cyrusfx · Post by **cyrusfx** » Tue May 12, 2009 12:41 am

I was at a dnb monthly in Waikiki in Aug 2008, a new DJ went up to the tables and spun just 1 track. But I remember I'd never heard anything like it... the beat was fast and slow at the same time, and funky as hell. Deep, vibrational bass that hit the soul. I went up to him after the show and asked him what kinda music that was and he told me, giving me a mix CD to check it out. It was the first time I'd ever heard that word, and I've been hooked since!

Yeah I know it took me a little while to find out about it, but I'm still 5 years ahead of the rest of Hawaii*, that's about how fast things move around here.

*Except for that guy from the SubDivision, and the half-handful of dubstep DJs holding it down in Honolulu

gemmad · Post by **gemmad** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:09 am

I was looking for some music for choreography, and somehow I landed on "9 Samurai". Fell in love with the song and bought a crap ton of tracks that day.

chessmatic · Post by **chessmatic** » Tue May 12, 2009 9:31 am

Last year, i've heard Burial 4 the first time, and since this moment i'm in love with dubstep

fretn · Post by **fretn** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:41 am

Well heres my story!

I used to be a guy who likes hardcore punk music, but then discovered house & drum & bass. in November of 2008 a friend showed me Rusko's Babylon Volume One, I liked it from the start but had no idea what kind of music it was. Then in january of 2009 during my exams I started to discover dubstep through a radioshow on Studio Brussels, a major radio station here in Belgium. As it later turned out it seemed that Night by Benga & Coki made me open my eyes. So I immediately went on the lookout for similar artist and ended up with Rusko (Again

), Benga, Caspa and last but not least Skream. Now we are a few months later and my taste in dubstep has changed a bit. At this moment I really like the likes of L-Wiz, Tes La Rok & Kromestar. And I'm also more & more attracted to harder artists like Borgore en Bar 9. Now I try to go to a rave once a month in Ghent, the place I study at.

well that's my short summary

d-vo · Post by **d-vo** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:01 am

vaccine!!

eric_digital · Post by **eric_digital** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:26 am

Bought this Rephlex compilation with Mark One, Plasticman, and Slaughter Mob. It was a fractal lightning bolt of artist discovery from there.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:28 am

always had a soft spot for 2step and garage, didn't like dubstep too much on first listen to what some people were playing then heard vex'd and alot of the other stuff on mu and got hooked and been hooked since

tim d · Post by **tim d** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:20 am

I was on Beatport and wondered what the fuck it was.

thc · Post by **thc** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:31 am

I was googling for Slimzee sets and I came across the Rinse FM forum and from there I found out about dubway's Dubstep blog. The first set I heard was Youngsta & Task on Rinse FM, March 10th, 2005.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:05 am

DMZ - Haunted

being played at college common room

COURT · Post by **COURT** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:17 am

thc wrote:Youngsta & Task on Rinse FM.

alcane · Post by **alcane** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:09 am

I've been DJing/producing D&B for years now, and heard dubstep when it first started making waves. Occasionally bought the odd release as I like to buy lots of different music (classics like Vex'd - Degenerate amongst others).

Finally this year after much sitting on the fence I was at the Bloc Weekender in March and heard so many wicked dubstep sets and decided I'm missing too much good music and I'd like to DJ it as well so ramped up my buying of dubstep 12"s.

I find at a night its the perfect thing to precede D&B and especially in Scotland where the scene isn't is prevelant as it is down south, people like a change in tempos throughout the night (as they're not as hardcore for the tunes as me and can't handle hearing one genre of music for 5 hours

).

The one track which initially grabbed me was Vex'd - Angels (as with others on that LP). The stuff I like to spin ranges from the more subdued sound of 2562, right through to Excision's Rottun Records output

apathesis · Post by **apathesis** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:14 am

I found dubstep through god.

djmoocha · Post by **djmoocha** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:50 pm

i used to play on flex fm a south london pirate from 96 - 98
station was half jungle/drum+bass which i was playing and half house and garage where i first started hearing what u probably call uk garage/speed garage which i kind of liked aswell although a lot of it was cheese

few years later a mate said to me "have u heard any of the garage stuff thats coming out? hardly any beats no real melody as such just heavy noise"

then early 2004 i was scanning the fm dial (was living in south london at the time) when i heard PLASTICMAN...on rinse fm... first thing i thought was fuck me this is well different than what Ritchie Hawtin normally plays

and wondered what a big name producer was doing on a south london pirate anyway listened on as it was tottally unique music i was hearing, and from the studio banter started wondering if it was the same plasticman... started listening more to rinse fm and noticed a quantum leap in terms of 'garage' music in blackmarket.. to be honest as much as i liked what i was hearing i didnt imagine people going for it at a dance,but it gave me the same buzz id had when i first heard jungle back in the day (funny enough a lot of people used to say the same thing then "its good but how do u dance to it its too fast" etc etc)

then saw plasticman at a rag+bone records night a few months later which was the first time id heard it outside my front room and loud and it made lot more sense and relised for sure it werent richie hawtin so PLASTICMAN basically ( not sure when i first realised when people were calling it dubstep as there were a lot of names such as sub lo/underground/dark garage being spoken at the time)

uncle bill · Post by **uncle bill** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:12 pm

djmoocha wrote:i used to play on flex fm a south london pirate from 96 - 98
station was half jungle/drum+bass which i was playing and half house and garage where i first started hearing what u probably call uk garage/speed garage which i kind of liked aswell although a lot of it was cheese

few years later a mate said to me "have u heard any of the garage stuff thats coming out? hardly any beats no real melody as such just heavy noise"

then early 2004 i was scanning the fm dial (was living in south london at the time) when i heard PLASTICMAN...on rinse fm... first thing i thought was fuck me this is well different than what Ritchie Hawtin normally plays and wondered what a big name producer was doing on a south london pirate anyway listened on as it was tottally unique music i was hearing, and from the studio banter started wondering if it was the same plasticman... started listening more to rinse fm and noticed a quantum leap in terms of 'garage' music in blackmarket.. to be honest as much as i liked what i was hearing i didnt imagine people going for it at a dance,but it gave me the same buzz id had when i first heard jungle back in the day (funny enough a lot of people used to say the same thing then "its good but how do u dance to it its too fast" etc etc)

then saw plasticman at a rag+bone records night a few months later which was the first time id heard it outside my front room and loud and it made lot more sense and relised for sure it werent richie hawtin so PLASTICMAN basically ( not sure when i first realised when people were calling it dubstep as there were a lot of names such as sub lo/underground/dark garage being spoken at the time)

That reminds me! The first dubstep record I bought was Plasticman's 'Value Beats' EP. It was in the grime section in Rooted. I only bought it because I wanted to see if Hawtin had gone garage.

He hadn't.

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:12 pm

lol, skream essential mix and a selector moldy mix from koncrete jungle in nyc

How did you get into dubstep?

....HOW IT STARTED in seattle.

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